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However, H&amp;E-stained images inherently lack molecular resolution, necessitating costly and labor-intensive technologies like spatial transcriptomics (ST) to uncover spatial gene expression patterns. There is a critical need for scalable computational methods that can bridge this imaging-transcriptomics gap.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We present histology-enhanced contrastive learning for imputation of profiles (HECLIP), an innovative deep learning framework designed to infer spatial gene expression profiles directly from H&amp;E-stained histology images. HECLIP employs an image-centric contrastive learning strategy to capture morphological features relevant to molecular expression. By minimizing dependence on ST data, HECLIP enables accurate and biologically meaningful predictions of gene expression. 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